Country Info
- Tirana
- Capital
- Lek (ALL)
- Currency
- 3,510,484
- Population
- AL
- Country Code
Tirana Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tirana, Albania
Tirana - city of cafes and dust
... the progress. Modern petrol stations (oddly, all with english-only signs reading 'unleaded' etc), ATMs that accept foreign bank cards (Albania's the last country in Europe to get these) and many good new buildings that make you forget about the dreary, ...
Albania
... , our planning led us to the new port on Corfu, and then on to a hydrofoil for the 25 minute journey to Sarande in Albania. Poor internet connections and not much time away from the boat in Corfu meant that we only managed to squeeze in an hour's ...
Tirana
... didn't get it either!) to catch a bus so just decided to head there the next day. We trekked around for a while in Tirana the next morning trying to find the Serbian consulate. (We had heard we needed visas to pass into Montenegro.) After hiking up ...
Shqiperi Doo Dah
... Albanian fans to throw things at us, they realised we were English so let us oue to enjoy a few Tirana beers on King Zog I Bulevardi. Albania has a really nice feel to it - immediately we liked it, despite Tirana being Europe's most polluted capital ...
Albania-Aiui!
... euros ao xulo do taxista pa me levar a 1a cidade...bem, qd la xeguei...como ja tive em paises arabes, n estranhei mt...Albania e a passagem entre a Europa e o medio oriente...tipo turkia(imagino...nunca la fui)Mas ha q admitir q o melhor q a albania tem, ...
tirana, capitale d'albanie...
encore une fois, bonjour de tirana...je suis devant un ordinateur qui aiguise ma patience... je comprends pourquoi ilcoute moins cher qu'ailleurs... finalement pas tant que ca, puisqu'il faut plus de temps pour lire et ecrire les messages...minute de ...
Sweat, Liquid Dreams, UHT and other liquids
... 8217;. I remember dancing to this song on my desk on the last day of 4th class (that puts me at around 10 years old). Oh Albania, its time to move on. In the evening I met up with a guy from the internet who looked absolutely nothing like his pictures. I ...
Cold weather, power outages, and litter
... to the side or directly in front of where they happen to be standing. Rolling power outages are a regular occurrence across Albania and Tirana is no exception. In Tirana they seemed to occur twice a day - once in the early afternoon and ...
encore a tirana...
... : tout le monde fume partout malgre les indications de ne pas fumer; plusieurs crachent (andre le. sait bcombien je deteste ca), a tirana, la circulation est folle ( c'est comme si on s'etait donne le mot pour tenter de frapper les pietons)... de ...
Shit everywhere!!!!
... ' over here as shit, unfortunately, seems to be the word for 'sales' or 'free' and so appears on most shopfronts. Albania is a bizarre country that really does seem a bit alien in Europe. Its a mostly muslim country, with a very unusual and unique ...
More Tirana time and general Albanian observations
... ) and partially because of my lack of Albanian language skills and the general lack of English-speakers in the country. Albania was a very dirty country. All through the countryside and in the cities there is trash everywhere. Especially ...
Furniture shop, furniture shop, petrol station....
... an hour later and trekked back through the streets to our hotel. We grabbed out stuff and made for the 3pm bus to Tirana, Albania’s capital. The bus ride was pretty interesting and we spent most of the journey with our heads glued to the window, ...
Day 107: Neo Tirana
tirana, une capitale qui se renouvelle
... la personne qui a recu la reponse... aujourd'hui il a fait soleil et il a fait chaud... j'ai pris l'autobus berat-tirana; on a mis trois heures a faire le voyage et pourtant la route etait belle...je reste dans un petit hotel qui exterieurement a ...
Day 106: Over the Mountains to Albania
Shared Taxi to Sturga, then bus over the mountains to Tirana (via a nice big loop around the country via Durres on the coast) Evening walking round the packed bars and restaurants of ...
un autre qui-pro-quo annonce
... je manquerai le moins: l'odeur de la cigarette;- les bons souvenirs: sarajevo, mostar, kotor, okrid, gjirokastra, berat et tirana, la sympathie des albanais, les soirees de musique traditionnelle...;- moins bons souvenirs: m'etre fait voler a kotor, le ...
Skanderbeg Square
Tirana is a city of extreme contrasts. A donkey-drawn cart pulls up along side of a top-of-the-line Mercedes. A muslim cleric sings out the morning prayers as a spandex-clad woman enjoys her morning run. A cow looks up from grazing to notice a major ...
June 20: In Albania, Muslims eat pork
Albania is a strange place where strange things happen. For example, under the former dictator, Hoxha, for many years it was the most closed and isolated country in the world, with only one ally: Mao's China (N. Korea has at least 2: China and Russia); ...
Albania
... had a rest, explored the little stone town and treated ourselves to our first dinner out in a while at a bargain price. Albania is a pretty country. Very rocky with loads of those little mushroom concrete bunkers dotted everywhere and every second car ...
Into Albania!!!!
... let us in to Albania.... The bus stopped just over the border so we could all take photo's beside the "Welcome to Albania" sign. Aaron; , the bus driver took a picture of the bus instead with the sign of him:) The countryside is ...
ALBANIA-first part
... room in a central three stars hotel. Fier is a modern city with a lot of high and bright coloured buildings (everything in Albania is much coloured as reaction to grey and black colours time during the communist era). I had dinner at the restaurant of my ...
Footsteps of Alexander the Great
... . . . has a long history going back to the time of the Ottoman Empire with a great deal about Albania's hero, Gjergi Kastriot Scanderberg, . . . . . . . . . . who successfully repelled three sieges by Sulton Mehmet II, and stopped the Ottoman Empire's ...
Waiting waiting waiting on K
... kinda shrugged our shoulders because there was no obvious direction we needed to go to find our next bus. The crazy thing about Albania is that there are no bus terminals and the mini-buses/furgons/long distance buses depart from a pre-determined spot ...
lake running trail and Block district
The trail next to the lake right behind the sheraton was a great place to run. Its about 2KM out and back and there's plenty of others running around the lake during the day as well. Goto the "Block" or Biloku area in the evening for ...
The hunt for Albanian lager
... ; The passports were quickly returned and we drove on until we came to the Albanian border. Albania operates a strange border policy wherein you have to pay to get in and out of the country. Some sources had ...
Day 121 : The New HNIC
... a policeman whether it was fine to park here. Unknowingly I asked the equiivalent to a Federal Guard to the President of Albania's White House, who told me it was fine but I should move it forward. Confused at first, and making 2 trips between ...
Hauptstadt Albaniens
Heute um 12 steige ich in den Bus nach Tirana, das ist die Hauptstadt von Albanien. Da ich gestern meine Flip Flops weggeschmissen habe ist es Zeit ein paar neue zu kaufen denn ohne will ich in keine dormdusche steigen und außerdem hab ich mir wohl den ...